ARE INEQUALITIES IN HEART DISEASE CHARACTERIZED BY INTERGENERATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT?

Abstract Intergenerational patterns in educational attainment are associated with later-life heart health. Yet, whether the association between intergenerational education patterns and adult heart disease varies by cohort and gender is unclear despite the increasing importance of education for health, especially among women. Informed by a life-course perspective, this study aims to further contextualize the link between education and heart disease in time and across groups. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative panel survey of adults over the age of 50, we examine how patterns in intergenerational education are associated with heart disease prevalence (n=31,141) and incidence from 1998 to 2018 (person-year observations=253,521) and whether these patterns vary by gender and cohort. Overall, individuals characterized by stable-high education (i.e., parent and respondent have at least some college education) consistently had the lowest prevalence and incidence of heart conditions, whereas those with low adult education, regardless of parent’s education, had the highest risk of heart conditions. Findings also indicate that the effects of intergenerational education patterns on adult heart disease were most pronounced for women and the younger cohorts compared to men and older cohorts, respectively. For example, women and the youngest cohort (born 1954-1967) with upward and stably high intergenerational education had the most favorable heart disease outcomes, whereas the same groups with downward intergenerational education experienced the highest heart disease prevalence. Our findings demonstrate the importance of contextualizing how intergenerational educational attainment influences later-life heart conditions by considering variations by gender and cohort.

their adult children and detailed geographic information, we analyze who moves when parents and children move in together or move closer without coresiding, and who benefits from such moves.Preliminary results reveal that children are roughly four times more likely to move in with parents than parents move in with children, and moving primarily benefits those who move: 89.2 percent of parents who moved reported that either they were the sole beneficiary of the move or that both they and their children benefited, and the same was true of 92.8 percent of children movers.However, as parents' health declines, they increasingly benefit from the proximity-enhancing moves regardless of who moves.For example, about half of all children who move in with parents following the onset of parents' health decline reports doing was to benefit their parents, either exclusively of in conjunction with them.Next, we will fit regression models of who moves for newly coresident dyads and dyads moving closer, respectively, as well as models of who benefited from such moves.This research provides new policy-relevant insights because the caregiver supports needed could be different depending on whether it was the parent or the child that moved.The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic intensified the stressful and already difficult circumstances of communities of color.Yet, no current photovoice research has highlighted the lived experiences of low-income Black, Indigenous, and persons of color (BIPOC) older adults during the pandemic.This qualitative study used photovoice to visually portray the struggles of low-income BIPOC older adults and how they recovered from and adapted to the impact of the pandemic.The data analyzed were drawn from interviews, focus groups, photographs, and written stories exploring their experiences and how they found meaning.Results show that participants faced different challenges during the pandemic, such as the fear of COVID-19 exposure and death, struggles to adopt COVID-19 mitigation strategies, loneliness, and social isolation.Amid this crisis of suffering, isolation, and sadness, participants found meaning through a positive reappraisal of the negative situation and engaging in emotional, spiritual, social, and physical self-care practices.The findings have implications for clinical social workers, mental health counselors, faith communities, nurse managers and administrators, and policymakers.

EXAMINING INEQUITIES AND INEQUALITIES IN AGING
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ARE INEQUALITIES IN HEART DISEASE CHARACTERIZED BY INTERGENERATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT?
Blakelee Kemp 1 , Carli Rush 1 , and Patricia Morton 2 , 1. University of Nebraska,Lincoln,Nebraska,United States,2. Wayne State,Detroit,Michigan,United States Intergenerational patterns in educational attainment are associated with later-life heart health.Yet, whether the association between intergenerational education patterns and adult heart disease varies by cohort and gender is unclear despite the increasing importance of education for health, especially among women.Informed by a life-course perspective, this study aims to further contextualize the link between education and heart disease in time and across groups.Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative panel survey of adults over the age of 50, we examine how patterns in intergenerational education are associated with heart disease prevalence (n=31,141) and incidence from 1998 to 2018 (person-year observations=253,521) and whether these patterns vary by gender and cohort.Overall, individuals characterized by stable-high education (i.e., parent and respondent have at least some college education) consistently had the lowest prevalence and incidence of heart conditions, whereas those with low adult education, regardless of parent's education, had the highest risk of heart conditions.Findings also indicate that the effects of intergenerational education patterns on adult heart disease were most pronounced for women and the younger cohorts compared to men and older cohorts, respectively.For example, women and the youngest cohort (born 1954-1967) with upward and stably high intergenerational education had the most favorable heart disease outcomes, whereas the same groups with downward intergenerational education experienced the highest heart disease prevalence.Our findings demonstrate the importance of contextualizing how intergenerational educational attainment influences later-life heart conditions by considering variations by gender and cohort.

ARE RURAL OLDER ADULTS READY TO ADOPT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (AV)? PREDICTORS OF ATTITUDES TOWARD AV IN RURAL AREAS
Mojgan Zoaktafi, Tyler Gandy, and Jong Sung Yoon, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States Transportation for older adults residing in rural areas is particularly vital for maintaining their everyday activities including access to health services and community activities.Given unique features of rural areas (e.g., limited public transportation, greater distances to travel but less traffic), autonomous vehicles (AV) can be an innovative solution to rural older adults.Nevertheless, attitudes toward AV can be a significant barrier for older adults to adopt it.In fact, older adults in rural areas tend to hold different attitudes toward and experiences with new technologies.The current study explored how individual difference variables (i.e., age group, gender, technology proficiency, & personality traits) predict attitudes toward AV in rural areas.We first conducted a factor analysis on a 16-item attitude survey (collected from rural areas in USA) which uncovered three factors: concern with AV, willingness to adopt AV, confidence on human driving over AV.ANOVAs on the attitudinal factors showed that older adults (60+ yrs, n = 45) had a lower willingness to adopt AV than young adults (17-21 yrs, n = 47) despite a lower confidence on human driving over AV.There was no age group difference in concern with AV.Multiple regressions supported that technology proficiency can be another significant predictor of willingness to adopt AV over and above other individual difference factors (i.e., age groups, gender, & personality).These results indicate that older adults in rural areas have complex and ambivalent attitudes toward AV, which suggest different approaches to the dissemination of AV technology for them.

COGNITIVE AND FUNCTIONAL IMPACTS OF CHILD LABOR IN INDIA: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF EDUCATION
Seolah Lee 1 , Kriti Vikram 2 , and Hyo Jung Lee 1 , 1. Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore This study aims to examine how entry into the labor market in childhood is associated with deficits in latelife cognitive and functional health.Using the Cumulative Advantage/Disadvantage Theory, it further explores how educational attainment, an indicator of socio-economic status, mediates the associations between child labor and cognitive and functional health among older adults in India.Lastly, it investigates if the results vary by gender.We use the nationally representative World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and Health (SAGE), and select respondents aged 50 years or older (n = 6,215 for Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE); n=6,408 for the Functional Limitation (FL)).Mediation models were performed for each dependent variable using the sgmediation2 program, bootstrapped 5,000 resamples, and percentile bootstrap confidence interval.The indirect and total effects of child labor on MMSE were significant, while the direct effect of child labor was not.For FL, the indirect effect was significant, but the direct and total effects were not.Gender difference was found in terms of the direct effect, child work was directly associated with a lower MMSE score in older women (p < .01),whereas it was not significant for older men.Findings suggest that early entry into the labor market (as a child) has a negative impact on older adults' MMSE and FL through deprivation of educational opportunities.Providing opportunities for completing certain level of education can mitigate the negative impact of child labor on health in old age.

DECLINES IN CONTROL BELIEFS OVER TIME: THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION AND INEQUALITY
Stefan Agrigoroaei 1 , and Denisa Cristina-Alina Berceanu 2 , 1. Universite Catholique de Louvain,Brabant Wallon,Belgium,2. University of Bucharest,Bucharest,Bucuresti,Romania Higher control beliefs represent a key protective factor for healthy aging, broadly defined.If the benefits of control beliefs are well documented, fewer studies have focused on the antecedents of changes in control.There is empirical evidence that social stress, such as being treated unfairly or discriminated against, may erode personal control.The